tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post8890873526252627350..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: The "radical" past of AG Eric HolderNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-73884001580520918822012-10-02T08:02:02.101-05:002012-10-02T08:02:02.101-05:00Mornin' Blackman.
I KNEW you would enjoy this...Mornin' Blackman.<br /><br />I KNEW you would enjoy this one!Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-54496380426899586342012-10-02T07:16:25.542-05:002012-10-02T07:16:25.542-05:00Mo'nin Ms. Pants
You should'a seen mine.
...Mo'nin Ms. Pants<br /><br />You should'a seen mine.<br /><br />AND, I wore "granny glasses".<br /><br />These were just aMAzing days and times. And, what the young AG did was pretty classic. Not out of the, then, college norm at all.<br /><br />I'd also point out that 1970 (May 4th to be exact) was the date of: "Four dead in Ohio". Kids were locking up their boards of trustees in their "ivory towers" across the land.<br /><br />They swing!<br /><br />They MISSSS!!!!!!!!!!!Blackmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-56609906095981623822012-10-01T13:19:04.250-05:002012-10-01T13:19:04.250-05:00My grandfather was about the most Republican perso...My grandfather was about the most Republican person you could imagine. He never voted a Democrat in his life after the age of 25. He had little good to say about people who disparaged Democrats, however.<br /><br />his favorite political saying: Lives there a man with a heart so dead that in the '30s wasn't Red.<br /><br />He was born in 1900, died in 1961. Other than that he was a flaming racist, he would've liked and appreciated Eric Holder.DerFarmhttp://yellowdogpolitics.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-66259268069573471652012-10-01T11:17:43.403-05:002012-10-01T11:17:43.403-05:00This is sort of indicative of the extent to which ...This is sort of indicative of the extent to which the GOP voting base, tangential but not unrelated to racial questions, is stuck in a Cold War frame of historical reference. The big problem with the Panthers for a Hoover was not simply that they were effective--their programs fed, vaccinated, clothed, and educated thousands--but that they were both Black and Marxist. They were a triple threat.<br /><br />Witness Romney's talk of the "Soviet threat." That's his brain talking. 9/11, far from being seen for what it was--a disaster indicating the strategic change from conflict between states to conflict between states and non-state actors--began two land wars with traditional militaries, gleefully cheered from the sidelines as the World War III the Russians refused to give us.<br /><br />Part of the reason for their decline at the polls is that for anyone born after 1980, the whole mentality is something they learned about (or neglected to learn about) in history class. It means very little to them.Billhttp://freeandeasywandering.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-62874941891864501492012-10-01T10:44:29.386-05:002012-10-01T10:44:29.386-05:00The Afro is pretty fly. This "outrage" ...The Afro is pretty fly. This "outrage" is a result of what passes for history teaching in our schools. I doubt it'll get anything more than laughter outside of the wing nuts. Sounds like Holder was pretty cool back in the day. He was young and wanted to get involved. Fred Hampton was killed a year before. King a year before that. The Panthers were doing their thing strong at the time. I'd be surprised if he weren't somewhat influenced by everything happening at the time. I know J Edgar Hoover's spinning in his grave.<br /><br />Vic78Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com